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A Timely Beginning | January 2024
A new year, a new month, a new word... (and at least one of these things is a very good thing!) This month I spent my some of my time "unpacking time" a bit. I found that I had quite a few "boxes" to look through as this word began showing up for me last April! I am...
January… or April… a RIFF | 1.26.24
It has been a topsy-turvy week here... we went from having temps in the teens on Sunday... to this morning an unbelievable 63°F. It smells like spring outside... and the birds must be thinking so as well because there was so much singing as Sherman and I trekked out...
Unraveled Wednesday | 1.24.24
Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday to you all! It has been a study in slow making in my house since last week... very slow. I have not knit a single stitch on my cabled sweater... I know, I know! I have been stitching... which is so delightful but it is...
Sometimes Monday | 1.22.24
Is so random! Here in the 'Burgh we have had winter for a hot minute but all that changes this week as we are looking at temps soaring into the 50's... sigh. That means all the snow we got will melt... we had some melting yesterday which turned the steps to get...
A Gathering of Poetry | 1.18.24
One of the best things in my week are the moments that I allow a poem to set the tone for my day. This year, I am reading through Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby R. Wilson's Poetry of Presence II as my morning devotion. And last week, a poem really jumped out to me... bits...
Unraveled Wednesday | 1.17.24
Greetings gentle Unravelers! When I look at a weather map, almost the entire US looks plunged in cold... and knitters everywhere knit on with a bit of delight! Right? I know I did... Sock One is DONE! and Sock Two is moving right along. I shall have pink socks soon!...
Sometimes Monday | 1.15.2024
Brings answers! Last week, a few of you asked me questions and I have answers! Carolyn asked these burning questions: "That photo, what a treat!!! With your phone? Or serious camera?" I took that photo with my phone, which I think is a very serious camera! (Why?...
Some January RIFFing | 1.12.24
It has been a relatively quiet week here... Steve was back to "regular" work hours (whew!) and I found the time to knit myself to "fresh" yarn (as Carole so brilliantly put it!) on the Great Cabled Cardigan! And I have been having great fun "unpacking" my word for the...
Unraveled Wednesday | 1.10.24
Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! It has been a week with a good bit of actual unraveling here... sigh. Yes, on the Great Cabled Sweater... because of course. This time it is 100% knitter error... I somehow** skipped an entire section of the "straight"...
Hello, January | 2024
Begin as you mean to go on... Charles Spurgeon Here we are one week into the new year. I spent some of last week tucking away Christmas... a bit of a melancholic activity. But I also like the feeling of reclaimed space to start the new year... which helps to balance...
A Year of Time | 1.5.24
Life can be very curious and last April I stumbled into this conversation with Jenny Odell. It was the beginning of time showing up for me... nudging me... as I moved through my year with Authenticity. I could not get the conversation with Jenny Odell out of my mind...
A Year of Unraveling | 2023
...To not be making things is to be dead. — Donna Druchunas, comment from Melanie Falick's blog. Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy New Year! Welcome to a new year of unraveling... one which I plan to continue exactly as we have been... sharing peeks into our making...
Reading…the best of the best | 2023
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons It has been an excellent year of reading (again!) I truly do not understand how the non-reader gets through the day......
Forward… with Authenticity | December 2023
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. — Dan Rather It has been quite the journey... one that began way back in 2019 with Focus. I never imagined that it would have taken this long path... and when I...
A Gathering of Poetry | December 2023
I have really been focused on "finding the joy" this month... some things have been bogging me down recently that have seemed determined to squeeze any bit of joy I might have out of me... so when I saw this poem on IG and then Kym posted something so perfect from the...
Unraveled Wednesday | 12.20.23
Greetings Dearest Unravelers! Christmas is now Looming Large... I hope that means that you have all the things you wanted to complete... completed. We got a bit of snow here in the 'Burgh and I love it! YAY! I am feeling all the Christmas Feels with a spot of snow on...
Sometimes Monday | 12.18.23
can have some residual weekend frustration.... Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. ― Elizabeth Zimmerman Thrice now, in the course of My Great Cabled Sweater Knit I have stumbled across some less...
Some TGIF for mid-December | 12.15.23
It's been a long week in my neighborhood... but at long last FRIDAY has arrived! I am going to slow down and savor this weekend... but first, how about some good old TGIFing to get the weekend started! Thankful — I am thankful for so many things! Things like long...
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